With Metroid Prime 4 out now, GameCentral looks back at the series’ timeline to try and make sense of its long-running storyline. For hardcore gamers, Metroid is one of Nintendo’s most significant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Boring stats stuff first, this is a hardback book consisting of ...

Sometimes I find it hard to believe that Metroid is a nearly 40-year-old series. It still feels young next to the likes of Mario, which has countless games to its name. The Metroid library is ...

Nintendo’s reputation for family-friendly adventures has always been slightly at odds with its own Metroid series. While Samus’ bounty-hunting exploits are closer to PG than anything cooked up by the ...

Classic SNES games like Chrono Trigger stand above all others.

Since 1986 the Metroid series has gone from 2D to 3D (and back to 2D) and to consoles and portables, with plenty of Samus appearances and cameos in other games along the way. It’s responsible for ...

Josh Cotts is the Lead Features and Lists Editor at GameRant. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2019 with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Media Studies and has been ...

Released in 2016, this Metroid Prime game was supposed to answer almost nine years of fans demanding another title game. The problem? This game had NOTHING to do with the Metroid Prime series outside ...

When I was a kid, Super Metroid was everything. Weaned on Nintendo’s haunting, Alien-inspired side-scroller, I spent countless hours watching my father trudge through the depths of the planet Zebes as ...

Metroid Prime 4 has finally arrived after eight years of anticipation. Now subtitled “Beyond,” the latest chapter in Samus’ journey takes her to a mysterious new planet where she comes face-to-face ...

Exploration and puzzle-solving are as satisfying as ever Larger emphasis on story and side characters doesn’t end up landing Many of the aforementioned side characters, in particular, aren’t ...